A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Example is leadership.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.